What Is That Odd Ungrammatical Language People Are Using On The Internet?

Today, thanks to the development of autocorrect, we could all easilywrite “correctly,” and yet, as Gretchen McCulloch notes, we don’t. We overrideautomatic capitalization when our phones provide it, if it doesn’t suitour purposes. We purposely “misspell” and “misuse” words, ignore andoveruse punctuation marks, and modify the basic rules of grammar. Hell,we even retype a keyboard smash (like “asdjhfksaskd,” which I just typedthree times)